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Berlitz Swedish Phrase Book
• Inc. Berlitz International
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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(SWE50, $14.95)
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Blackwater
• Kerstin Ekman
• LITERATURE
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The suspicious death of an artist sends Police Constable Torsson skiing north to the remote Lapland village of Rakisjok to investigate, and there he encounters a frozen wall of resistance from the townspeople.
(SWE38, $16.00)
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Carl and Karin Larsson, Creators of Swedish Style
• Elisabet Stavenow-Hidemark
• Michael Snodin
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A delightful collection of art from the husband and wife team whose work created a new domestic ideal in 1890's Sweden. Contextual essays are accompanied by 191 color and 71 black and white illustrations and photos.
(SWE23, $29.95)
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Carl Larsson, The Autobiography of Sweden's Most Beloved Artist
• Carl Lasson
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Stories of Larsson's childhood and artistic life in his own words.
(SWE25, $17.00)
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City Flash Stockholm
• Hallwag
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A detailed, laminated map of Stockholm with major attractions and public transportation routes clearly indicated.
(SWE17, $6.95)
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Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe
• Glynis Ridley
• HISTORY
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The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state.
(FRN536, $12.00)
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Egil's Saga
• Bernard Scudder
• Svanhildur Oskarsdottir
• LITERATURE
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This chronicle of war and rivaly between ruling clans, written in the 13th century, blends history and legend. It's a vivid portrait of the Viking world. The action is set in 10th-century southern Scandinavia, the Baltic, Iceland and the North Sea.
(VIK06, $15.00)
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Fodor's Sweden
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series, saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining.
(SWE48, $18.95)
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs.
(EUR190, $17.95)
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A Hedonist's Guide to Stockholm
• Stephen Whitlock
• GUIDEBOOK
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A slick, stylish guide to Stockholm highlighting the city's most decadent and fashionable spots. From the sophisticated Hedonist Guide series with well-photographed restaurants, clubs and bars and limited sightseeing information.
(SWE44, $18.95)
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow.
(EUR189, $14.00)
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A History of the Vikings
• Gwyn Jones
• HISTORY
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Jones integrates history and archaeology in this classic portrait of the Vikings.
(VIK20, $18.99)
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Knopf Mapguide, Stockholm
• Knopf Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps.
(SWE37, $9.95)
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Lapland, A Natural History
• Derek Ratcliffe
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An authoritative, indispensable overview of the birds, plants, habitats and wildlife of the northern regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwestern Russia.
(ARC182, $65.00)
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Lonely Planet Scandinavian Europe
• Glenda Bendure
• Ned Friary
• GUIDEBOOK
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An excellent practical guide to Scandinavian countries, as well as St. Petersburg and Tallinn, featuring a good overview of culture, history and nature, and plenty of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing.
(SCN01, $24.99)
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Lonely Planet Stockholm Encounter
• Cristian Bonetto
• GUIDEBOOK
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This lively shirt pocket guide to the city, jammed with personal recommendations and photographs, also includes a pull-out map.
(SWE43, $11.99)
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Lonely Planet Sweden
• Becky Ohlsen
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive guide in the Lonely Planet style featuring 46 maps, background detail on the country and culture -- and practical information for the traveler.
(SWE51, $21.99)
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Mammals of Europe
• Priscilla Barrett
• David W. MacDonald
• FIELD GUIDE
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Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals.
(FG61, $34.95)
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Michelin Green Guide Scandinavia and Finland
• Michelin Travel Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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A thorough guide to Scandinavia in the classic Michelin style.
(SCN10, $21.95)
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Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination, Swedish Art of the 1890s
• Michelle Facos
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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A handsome study of Swedish National Romanticism of the 1890's.
(SWE24, $65.00)
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Never End
• Ake Edwardson
• LITERATURE
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An installment in the popular Erik Winter series, the book follows a series of unsolved rape-murders that Winter must race to solve in Gothenburg, Sweden..
(SWE42, $24.95)
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Northern Europe Map
• Freytag & Berndt
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A colorful shaded relief map of Scandinavia and the Baltic States at a scale of 1:2,000,000. It shows the entire Baltic Sea region.
(EUR19, $11.95)
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Orkneyinga Saga, The History of the Earls of Orkney
• Hermann Palssom
• Paul Edwards
• LITERATURE
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A fusion of myth and legend, circa A.D. 1200, by an unnamed Icelandic author. The medieval chronicle has its center of action among the Orkney Islands, describing their conquest by Norwegian kings during the Viking expansion of the ninth century.
(VIK07, $15.00)
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings
• Peter Sawyer
• HISTORY
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An insightful overview of the Viking Age in Norway and abroad, illustrated throughout and featuring essays by 12 experts.
(VIK18, $27.99)
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Rick Steves' French, Italian & German Phrase Book & Dictionary
• Rick Steves
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary.
(EUR142, $9.95)
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Seven Viking Romances
• Hermann Palssom
• Paul Edwards
• ANTHOLOGY
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Entertaining sagas telling of Viking kings, adventurers and gods.
(VIK04, $15.00)
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Stockholm Series 2: Children of Their City
• Pers Anders Fogelstrom
• LITERATURE
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Fogelstrom follows the intertwined destinies of Henning Nilsson's children against a fully realized backdrop of late 19th-century Stockholm in this second novel in his beloved series, following City of My Dreams (SWE22). One of the most widely read novels in Sweden, Fogelstroms's statue stands at the entrance to the hall where the Nobel Prizes are awarded. Berman made Summer with Monika into a film.
(SWE52, $18.95)
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The Thirty Years' War
• Geoffrey Parker
• HISTORY
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A scholarly history of the major European conflict of the 17th century. Among the outcomes were the annexation of Alsace by France, the annexation of Pomerania by Sweden and the legalization of Calvinism in Germany.
(EUR115, $39.95)
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Time Out Stockholm
• Time Out
• GUIDEBOOK
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An up-to-date guide on what to do and where to go by the people who publish Time Out Magazine.
(SWE36, $19.95)
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Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
• Marybeth Bond
• Mary Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95)
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The Vikings, A Very Short Introduction
• Julian D. Richards
• HISTORY
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This slim volume is a stimulating, concise introduction to the Vikings.
(VIK24, $14.99)
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Vinland Sagas, Norse Discovery of America
• Magnus Magnusson
• EXPLORATION
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These Icelandic sagas, as edited by the great Magnus Magnusson, tell the compelling story of the Norse discovery of America five centuries before the arrival of Christopher Columbus.
(VIK03, $13.00)
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A Year in Lapland, Guest of the Reindeer Herders
• Hugo Beach
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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An account of a year among the Saami in Swedish Lapland. An anthropologist by training, the author combines travelogue, history and meditation on the cycle of life in the north.
(SCN12, $25.00)
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